Gerd & Siliva

While our accommodations are charming, it is our hosts Gerd & Silvia that are really making our time in Bödldorf special.

Shirley toasting with our hosts Silvia & Gerd

They purchased this farm 25 years ago when an old man died and had no heirs wanting to stay on. They operate three businesses from the property now.  Gerd is a former professor of Occupational Psychology  and they continue working in that field as a book publisher and using their facility as a retreat and seminar location. 

They also use the farm for wedding receptions and parties and  they began doing Airbnb rentals about a year ago.

They have two grown daughters, one living in Munich and the other in Norway.  Shirley asked Silvia how old the daughter in Norway was and she replied 50.  Shirley, assuming she hadn't understood, said "no your daughter."  Silvia said, "yes, my daughter is 50."  Our hosts turn out to be in their 70s, but we would have guessed much, much younger.

Tonight, they came over at our invitation for a drink and brought with them two bottles of Champagne.  Gerd mentioned (I think as a joke), that if we needed a vehicle before our cars showed up that we could borrow his antique tractor to ride to town.